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Jour nal o f P la n t Pro t e ct io n R e s e a rc h                                                                    ISSN 1427-4345

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Characterization of Turkish isolates of Pseudocercospora griseola
the causal agent of angular leaf spot of common beans
Sirel Canpolat1*, Salih Maden2
1
    Department of Phytopathology, Ankara Plant Protection Central Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey
2
    Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

Vol. 61, No. 1: 95–102, 2021              Abstract
DOI: 10.24425/jppr.2021.136273
                                          Characterization of angular leaf spot (ALS) disease of beans caused by Pseudocercospora
                                          griseola (Sacc.) Crous & Braun along with its occurrence was investigated using 118 isolates
Received: July 7, 2020                    obtained from beans grown in greenhouses in the western Black Sea region of Turkey. In-
Accepted: August 24, 2020                 cidences of ALS disease ranged between 77–100% and 82–100% for summer and autumn
                                          sown bean cultivations while the disease severity was in the ranges of 66–82% and 74–86%
*Corresponding address:                   for the same periods, respectively. All of the 118 isolates of P. griseola yielded 500–560 bp
sirelozan_18@hotmail.com                  PCR products from ITS1 and ITS4 primers, while 45 isolates yielded 200–250 bp products
                                          from actin genes primer and 5 isolates yielded 300–350 bp from calmodulin primer. The
                                          form of the Turkish isolates of P. griseola was determined as f. griseola since ITS sequences
                                          of 118 isolates of P. griseola showed between 98–100% similarity to the isolates of P. griseola
                                          f. griseola deposited in GenBank and our isolates took place on the same branch on the
                                          phylogenetic tree formed by the representative isolates in GenBank. The actin sequences
                                          did not give a clear differentiation for the forms of P. griseola. The phylogenetic trees gener-
                                          ated by ITS1, ITS2 and actin genes formed similar branches. Each had two main clade and
                                          similar sub clades.
                                          Keywords: angular leaf spot, bean, disease, fungus

Introduction

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) when used to-                     DNA (nrDNA), since it showed indistinguishable
gether with cereals is a valuable crop to maintain a bal-             characteristics from other hypho­mycete anamorph
anced diet in order to prevent some serious diseases                  genera associated with Mycosphaerella, namely Pseu-
such as coronary diseases and diabetes (Viguiliouk                    docercospora and Stigmina (Crous et al. 2006). These
 et al. 2017). Angular leaf spot (ALS) disease of com-                researchers also identified two gene pools in the pop-
mon bean occurs in many tropical and subtropical                      ulation of P. griseola and named them Andean and
countries on all the continents of the world, especially              Middle-American. They also delineated two groups
in areas having humid and warm climates. Although                     within P. griseola, which are recognised as two for-
the disease takes its name from the leaf spot symp-                   mae, namely f. griseola and f. mesoamericana by fur-
toms, it affects all the plant parts causing brown circu-             ther analysis of morphology, cultural characteristics,
lar spots on the pods and seeds. ALS can cause severe                 and DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer
crop damage, and up to 70% loss.                                      (ITS), calmodulin, and actin gene regions. The causal
    ALS on common bean is caused by a fungus which                    agent is also known as Isariopsis griseola (Sacc.) and
has recently been named as Pseudocercospora griseola                  Phaeoisariopsis griseola (Sacc.) Ferraris.
(Sacc.) Crous & Braun based on the sequence analysis                      Common bean cultivation in greenhouses espe-
of the small subunit (SSU) region of nuclear ribosomal                cially in two provinces in the western Black Sea region
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of Turkey, Zonguldak and Bartın, has increased. Re-          taking a transact walk along the rows and across the
cently, a new disease, causing gray to brown, angular        selected greenhouse. Disease severity was evaluated
leaf spots on the leaves has been determined. When           by using the 1 to 9 scale of Schoonhoven and Pastor-
the intensity of the disease was high, leaf shed follow-     -Corrales (1987) as follows: 1 – no visible symptoms of
ing the yellowing of the leaves occurred. The causal         the disease, 3 – presence of a few, small non-sporulat-
agent of the disease was initially identified as P. grise-   ing lesions covering approximately 2% of the leaf area,
ola. This study was aimed to determine dissemination         5 – the presence of several, generally small lesions with
and severity of the disease, which is probably one of        limited sporulation covering approximately 5% of the
the greatest problems of greenhouse bean cultivation         leaf area, 7 – abundant and generally large sporulating
in the region. This paper also deals with further identi-    lesions covering approximately 10% of the leaf area,
fication and molecular characterization of ALS disease       9 – 25% or more of the leaf area covered by large sporu-
occurring in Turkey.                                         lating and often coalescing lesions. The coordinates of
                                                             each sampled site in the greenhouse was recorded by
                                                             GPS. Disease severity was calculated by Townsend and
Materials and Methods                                        Heuberger’s (1943) formula as below:

                                                                                Disease severity (%) 
Sampling and isolations
                                                                     (No. of lives at each scale × Scale value)
ALS symptoms were observed in many greenhouses                                                                      100.
                                                                 Highest scale value (9) × Total no. of leaves (50)
growing beans in Bartın and Zonguldak provinces,
Turkey. Pseudocercospora griseola isolates were ob-
tained from samples collected from naturally infected
                                                             DNA extraction and PCR amplification
leaves and pods of common bean. Greenhouses grow-
ing beans were visited once a week and samples were          For DNA extraction, 100 mg P. griseola mycelium
collected from the plants showing ALS symptoms. The          grown on malt extract agar (MEA) was scraped,
samples were taken at seedling-flowering and pod-            weighed and treated with liquid nitrogen. After freez-
harvest stages from the greenhouses representing the         ing and crushing, DNA extraction was performed
provinces by the random sampling method described            according to the protocol of DNeasy plant kit (QIA-
by Bora and Karaca (1970). Data regarding cultivars,         GEN Inc. Valencia, CA). The obtained DNAs were
their seed size and color, growth habits, and location       stored at –20°C for use of PCR. The amount and
were recorded during the collection of diseased sam-         purity of the obtained DNAs were determined as
ples. For fungal sporulation, tissues from infected bean     ng ∙ µl–1 by using the NANODROP spectrophotom-
leaves were placed on moistened filter papers in Petri       eter (Thermo Scientific 2000) by reading at absorb-
dishes, and were incubated at room temperature for           ance values of 260, 280, 260/280, and 260/230 nm,
3 to 4 days. Conidia from sporulated ALS lesions were        using ultra-pure water as a blind. Spectrophotometric
picked up with a tiny piece of agar placed on the tip of     readings were performed with three replications.
a sterile dissecting needle, streaked onto V-8 juice agar,       PCR amplification of the DNAs was performed by
and then incubated for 24 h at 24°C. Individual germi-       using general primers of three different conserved re-
nated conidia were then transferred to V-8 juice agar to     gions of the causal agent which were, respectively, ACT-
obtain monosporic cultures for each P. griseola isolate.     -512F ATGTGCAAGGCCGGTTTCGC, ACT-783R
                                                             TACGAGTCCTTCTGGCCCAT (200–300 bp), CAL-
                                                             -228F AGTTCAAGGAGGCCTTCTCCC, CAL-737R
Disease incidence and severity
                                                             CATCTTTCTGGCCAT (300–350 bp), ITS1: TCCG
Surveys were conducted in Karabük, Bartın and Zon-           TAGGTGAACCTGCGG, ITS4: TCCTCCGCTTATT
guldak provinces of the north-western part of Turkey.        GATATGC (500–560 bp). The implemented PCR cy-
Observations were made between May–December                  cle program was followed (Crous et al. 2006). The PCR
2011. Locations were selected based on their bean pro-       products were carried out and monitored by electro-
duction intensity comprising 39% of the total produc-        phoresis at 100 volts in 1× TBE (40 mM Tris-borate,
tion area. Sampling was carried out randomly by select-      1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0) buffer loaded onto 1.5% agarose
ing 42 greenhouses per location 2 km away from each          gel in the following order. DNA sequences were per-
other. In each greenhouse plot, incidence and severity       formed by GENOKS (Gazi Mah. Silahtar Cd. No: 67,
were estimated visually at several systematically se-        06560, Yenimahalle/Ankara). In addition, DNA se-
lected sampling sites. Disease incidence was expressed       quences of PCR products using general primers were
as the percentage of infected plants of the 50 plants        extracted and compared with respective sequences in
picked. Disease severity was assessed by evaluating          the NCBI (National Centre for Biotechnology Infor-
50 bean leaves from different parts of the greenhouse        mation).
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Determination of the form
of Pseudocercospora griseola
and phylogenetic analysis of the isolates
PCR products were separated in 1.5% agarose gels,
stained with ethidium bromide and visualized under
UV light. Sequence analysis of the products was done.
For determination of the forms, nucleotide sequences
were blasted to NCBI BLAST search, and the form of the
isolates was identified according to the homology with
sequences already present in GenBank. The nu­cleotide
sequences of the bean isolates were stored in Gen
-Bank with accession numbers MK483911-MK483944,
MK483661-MK483699, MT445197-MT445217. Ma­
ximum parsimony (MP) analysis was used in phylo-
genetic analysis of DNA sequences to specify genetic
differences among isolates. For phylogenetic analyses,
sequence information was transferred to MEGA 6.0
program and genetic similarity between isolates was
evaluated by creating a dendrogram (Tamura et al.
2013). A phylogenetic tree was also constructed by
using 21 isolates of ours and some isolates of f. gri-
seola and f. mesoamericana deposited in GenBank.
Phylogenetic trees were also constructed by using both
73 isolates selected from 118 ITS gene sequences.

Results
                                                                    Fig. 1. Some characteristics of angular leaf spot (ALS) disease
                                                                    caused by Pseudocercospora griseola: A – leaf spots, B – pod spots,
Characteristics of angular leaf spot disease                        C – conidiophores, D – conidia, E – fourteen-day-old colony on
                                                                    MEA, F – on V8 juice agar
Although the disease takes its name from the leaf spots
seen on leaves (Fig. 1A), it also infects the pods and
produces round, slightly depressed lesions (Fig. 1B).               Molecular characterization of Turkish isolates
The fungus P. griseola profusely sporulated on leaf le-             of Pseudocercospora griseola
sions when humidity was high and produced fascicu-
late conidiophores (Fig. 1C) forming multi-celled, dark             All of the 118 isolates of P. griseola yielded 500–560 bp
colored, elongate conidia (Fig. 1D). Pseudocercospora               PCR products from ITS1and ITS4 primers (Fig. 3A),
griseola grew very slowly on culture media, producing               while 45 isolates yielded 200–250 bp products from ac-
dark colored colonies on MEA (Fig. 1D) and V8 juice                 tin genes (Fig. 3B) and five isolates yielded 300–350 bp
agar (Fig. 1E).                                                     from calmodulin primer (Fig. 3C).
                                                                        The form of our isolates of P. griseola was deter-
                                                                    mined as f. griseola since ITS sequences of our 118 iso-
Disease incidence and severity in the western
                                                                    lates of P. griseola showed between 98–100% similar-
Black Sea region of Turkey
                                                                    ity to the isolates of P. griseola f. griseola deposited in
About 73, 44 and 30% of the total greenhouse areas of               GenBank. The similarity of the ITS sequences of these
Karabük, Bartın and Zonguldak provinces were moni-                  isolates to P. griseola f. mesoamericana was 90–92%.
tored, respectively. All isolates were obtained from                In the tree generated by our 21 selected isolates and
common beans showing angular leaf spot symptoms.                    four isolates from each formae of P. griseola depos-
ALS disease incidence ranged between 77–100% and                    ited in GenBank, all of our isolates took place in the
82–100% for summer and autumn sown bean cultiva-                    same clade with f. griseola (Fig. 4). Based on morpho-
tions while disease severity was in the ranges of 66–82%            logical characteristics (Fig. 1) and sequencing the ITS
and 74–86% for the same periods, respectively. Autumn               (Fig. 4), our isolates were identified as P. griseola f. gri-
sowing periods were slightly higher (Table 1). GPS                  seola. The genetic relatedness between ITS and actin
points of sampling greenhouses are given in Figure 2.               sequences obtained from the present study, selected as
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Table 1. Percent disease incidence and severity of angular leaf spot disease of common bean in the greenhouses in districts of three
provinces of western Anatolia region of Turkey

                                                Percent of disease incidence                  Percent of disease severity
Provinces/district
                                           spring sown             autumn sown           spring sown            autumn sown
Bartın               Central                 70.5–100                82.7–100             66.3–82.7               74.4–86.3
                     Devrek                  77.1–100                85.1–100              71.4–100                86.7–100
Zonguldak            Gökçebey                81.8–100                87.1–100              78.5–100                85.7–100
                     Çaycuma                 78.7–100                89.1–100              81.7–100                84.9–100
                                     no ALS was found in commercial bean growing areas. Only one plant had disease in a home
Karabük              Yenice
                                     garden with a transient plastic cover

Fig. 2. Distribution of the greenhouses sampled in three pro­
vinces

representative of Pseudocercospora griseola f. griseola,
is shown in dendrograms of Figures 5 and 6. As shown
in both of the dendrograms, the genetic diversity of
almost all the isolates was clearly settled and showed
a similar pattern for ITS and actin gene sequences.
                                                                      Fig. 3. PCR products of 500–560, 200–250, and 300–350 bp
                                                                      generated by: A – ITS1 and ITS4, B – actin, C – calmodulin
                                                                      primers of Pseudocercospora griseola isolates, respectively
Discussion

Angular leaf spot disease of common beans caused by                   bean production is not economically significant, the
P. griseola was previously found harmful and wide-                    disease was only found in a house garden. The reason
spread in greenhouse bean production in Bartın and                    for the non-existence of the disease in the fields could
Zonguldak provinces of the north western part of                      be the lower relative humidity, less than 90%, which
Turkey. Inoculum sources, survival of the disease and                 is required for disease outbreak. The disease incidence
disease outbreak were also determined in this area                    and severity had been very high on the local bean va­
(Canpolat and Maden 2017). Studies carried out in                     riety grown in this area for a long time. However, while
other countries show that up to 50–80% disease sever-                 some commercial varieties did not show higher disease
ity (Ddamulira et al. 2014) and our study also showed                 severity, we think that they have no resistance (Canpo-
that disease incidence and severity up to 92% occurred                lat and Maden 2020). Occurrence of higher intensities
in greenhouse bean production areas in the country,                   of the disease could be due to the use of a susceptible
the autumn sowing having higher rates than the spring                 local cultivar in autumn sowings, the use of infected
sowings in the two provinces, Bartın and Zonguldak.                   seeds harvested from spring sowings and the higher
In Karabük province, where commercial greenhouse                      relative humidity in the autumn. Commercial cultivars
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Fig. 4. Dendrogram showing genetic relatedness between 21 Turkish isolates of Pseudocercospora griseola f. griseola (marked with red
spots) with the forms of griseola and mesoamericana deposited in GenBank

sown in some greenhouses showed lower disease inci-                   in the wrong direction for example not being perpen-
dence, which might have some tolerance to the disease.                dicular to the prevailing wind and improper cultural
This situation was also shown by our previous study                   practices.
(Canpolat and Maden 2020). The high incidence of                          Molecular characterization of 118 isolates of
disease and severity in the region may also be due to                 P. griseola, specifically the subtype and genotypic dif-
unsuitable greenhouse structure, frequent sowing, the                 ferentiation was done for the first time in this study in
use of more seed per bed, establishment of greenhouses                Turkey. From the three primer sets, only ITS primers
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Fig. 5. Dendrogram showing genetic relatedness of 73 Turkish isolates of Pseudocercospora griseola f. griseola formed by DNA
sequences generated by ITS1 and ITS4 primers
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                                                                                      400-Bartin-Esenyurt
                                                                                      404-Bartin-Cestepe
                                                                                      104-Devrek-Baslarkadi
                                                                                      408-Bartin-Tuzcular
                                                                                      305-Gokcebey-Merkez
                                                                                      338-Bartin-Akmanlar
                                                                                      302-Gokcebey-Kadioglu
                                                                                      309-Gokcebey-Karapinar
                                                                                      332-Bartin-Akmanlar
                                                                                      325-Bartin-Demirciler
                                                                                      116-Gokcebey-Bakacakkadi
                                                                                      301-Gokcebey-Kadioglu
                                                                                      311-Caycuma-Kayikcilar
                                                                                      334-Bartin-Akmanlar
                                                                                      312-Caycuma-Kayikcilar
                                                                                      316-Caycuma-Gokcehatipler
                                                                                      327-Bartin-Ciftlik
                                                                                      331-Bartin-Karahuseyinoglu
                                                                                      41-Devrek-Ciftlik
                                                                                      50-Devrek-Gebesoglu
                                                                                      303-Gokcebey-Satibeyler
                                                                                      407-Bartin-Tuzcular
                                                                                      304-Gokcebey-Merkez
                                                                                      313-Caycuma-Kayikcilar
                                                                                      315-Caycuma-Akyamac
                                                                                      40-Devrek-Hsroglu
                                                                                      300-Gokcebey-Bakacakkadi
                                                                                      401-Bartin-Yazicilar
                                                                                      411-Bartin-Siremircavus
                                                                                      118-Gokcebey-Bakacakkadi
                                                                                      409-Bartin-Gecen
                                                                                      42-Devrek-Bilik
                                                                                      403-Bartin-Cestepe
                                                                                      410-Bartin-Gecen
                                                                                      310-Gokcebey-Saraclar
                                                                                      307-Gokcebey-Merkez
                                                                                      105-Gokcebey-Bakacakkadi
                                                                                      402-Bartin-Yazicilar
                                                                                      317-Caycuma-Ramazanoglu
                                                                                      44-Devrek-Alduvaklar
                                                                                      308-Gokcebey-Merkez
                                                                                      314-Caycuma-Aricioglu
                                                                                      336-Bartin-Akmanlar
                                                                                      405-Bartin-Cestepe
                                                                                      406-Bartin-Cestepe

Fig. 6. Dendrogram showing genetic relatedness of 45 Turkish isolates of Pseudocercospora griseola f. griseola formed by DNA
sequences generated by actin primers

amplified 500–560 bp products from all of the isolates,              Sea region of Turkey were determined by using dif-
while actin primes amplified 200–250 bp from 45 iso-                 ferent primers. When the obtained results were evalu-
lates and calmoludin primers 300–350 bp from only                    ated, all isolates were separated from each other and
five isolates. The ITS gene sequences of all the Turkish             there was a variation between them. The genetic sepa-
isolates showed similarity between 98–100% to                        ration of the isolates in the study supports the exist-
P. griseola f. griseola, the form which is present in many           ence of different pathotypes of the causal agent. This
parts of the world (Crous et al. 2006; Chilagane et al.              study is the first study in this field in Turkey and in the
2016), while the similarity of the isolates to P. griseola           future, larger and detailed studies will reveal important
f. mesoamaricana ranged from 90–92%. ITS sequences                   information about the diversity and distribution of the
of our 21 selected isolates took place in the same clade             pathotypes of angular leaf spot.
in the phylogenetic tree generated with the isolates of                  Angular leaf spot disease has been reported to be
f. griseola deposited in GenBank. This clearly shows                 one of the most important disease factors seen every-
that all the Turkish isolates of P. griseola belong to               where with bean cultivation, and it has been report-
P. griseola f. griseola.                                             ed that there are many strains and pathotypes in the
    In this study, genetic diversity levels between angu-            world. This number may increase with the emergence
lar leaf spot isolates collected from the western Black              of new strains due to pathogenic changes between
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among populations. We intended to determine the              of the Groups of Pseudocercospora griseola Causing An-
pathotypes of P. griseola in Turkey and we obtained          gular Leaf Spot in Protected Beans in West Black Sea
a small number of 12 international pathotype differen-       Region, Investigations on Prevalence, Searches of Ino­
tiation seed set from the breeders from South Africa.        culum and Reactions of Some Bean Cultivation Against
In order to reproduce the seeds, the 12-seed set was         This Agent’’ and this project was supported by the Turk-
planted in both Antalya and Ankara, but four varieties       ish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry with Project
of the differential set did not bloom and produce pods       number TAGEM-BS-/10/10-01/02-05 under National
although they grew profusely. Therefore, pathotypes of       Integrated Greenhouse Disease Management Program.
P. griseola could not be determined either by using in-
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